Miru Kim at TED
March 4, 2009
Miru Kim is a New York based artist who is famous for doing urban exploration in the nude (which she explains in this TED video). I remember the first time I saw her work was right after I explored the former Revere Sugar Factory in Red Hook, Brooklyn. I saw the nude pics of her on LTV and thought it was pretty dumb at the time but now that I’ve seen the result and understand what she was trying to do I’m kind of in awe. I’ve seen a lot of urban exploration pictures but hers are just on another level, precisely because she creates this character for them. Most urbex (including mine) is more of a way to document these great places. She goes to the next level and I have to give her mad props for it.



Her work echoes the photographic series Körperkonfiguration by VALIE EXPORT, as well as the architectural interventions of Gordon Matta-Clark. Very beautiful photographs.